肃
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肀
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八
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丿
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丨
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Susan Saint Bernard (su) wants to purge (肃) the space station from counter-revolutionary elements (肃). In the bathroom (Ø4) she uses a crayon (肀) to cross out everything that will be forbidden in the future: eight balls (八) (because she sucks at billiards) as well as bananas (丿) and dinosaur bones (丨) (because they both are inedible, at least for her).
肃
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肀
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八
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丿
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丨
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Susan Saint Bernard (su) wants to purge (肃) the space station from counter-revolutionary elements (肃). In the bathroom (Ø4) she uses a crayon (肀) to cross out everything that will be forbidden in the future: eight balls (八) (because she sucks at billiards) as well as bananas (丿) and dinosaur bones (丨) (because they both are inedible, at least for her).
prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland)
州
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丶
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丷
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川
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Mnemonic symbol: the red cotton tree, as it is the official flower of 广州 (Guangzhou). A new river (川) formed spontaneously in front of the outhouse (ou1), and James II of England (zh) was barely able to climb on a red cotton tree (州). Other animals are happy about this development: a mean crocodile (丷) is floating on a petal leaf (丶) towards the red cotton tree.